With everything that has been happening to us this last month, we were extremely pleased to get away! We left Sydney and drove the quick way to Melbourne via the Hume Highway which is now divided motorway all the way and a really fast trip. Because the only caravan park close to Tullamarine now only has cabins, we stayed the night at the back of a BP servo with trucks coming in and out all bloody night. A restful sleep it wasn't. The next day I dropped Russ at...

We woke to heavy fog which didn't dissipate till well after 11am. The landscape was softened by the mist rising and falling again throughout the morning. Through traditional pastures with merino sheep grazing to the heavily irrigated lands with orchards, cotton, grapes and vegetables, we passed Narrandera and Darlington Point, heading west. Approaching Hay, the grazing properties returned, the lushness of the irrigation area long past. Large herds of black cat...